<p>I am looking at the Stanford Bulletin to just check out the courses in and out of my major. There are SO many courses that I want to take in practically every term.</p>
<p>Is there a limit on the number of credits a student can take per term? (Aut/Win/Spr)</p>
<p>And, would a current Student have a recommendation of a manageable amount of credits? I would like to have some type of life and be active in other campus activities, but I am certainly willing to dedicate my time to my classes.</p>
<p>20 units is the limit; you can take 21 if the 21st is an activity class (like rock climbing, Pilates, band, etc). A normal load is 3-4 classes, depending on the difficulty of your classes; 5 is somewhere between slightly heavy and insane, again depending on difficulty. Units are not always a good measure of how heavy your load is.</p>
<p>do units = classes?
or can some classes be more than one unit… ? if so, could you give examples of how many units typical classes would have?</p>
<p>Most academic classes are 3-5 units. For example, the intro humanities/writing classes are 4 units, the intro math 50 series (multivariable calculus, some linear algebra, and ODEs) are each 5 units. The lowest level intro physics (non-calculus) are each 3 units.</p>
<p>Engineering/math/science classes tend to go down to 3-4 units after the introductory classes. Humanities and social science classes tend to stay at 5 units the whole way through. </p>
<p>As mentioned about, the number of units is not really a good indication of how difficult your course load is. For example, most math classes after the intro level are 3 units. I can pick out 9 units of math classes that would easily be 40-50+ hours of work. At the same time, 20 units of poli sci classes will probably require 3-4 late nights all quarter (and only because you started the paper the night before it was due).</p>
<p>Whats funny is that the social science/humanities majors are all also typically far fewer units than the engineering ones. So engineering students have more units required, and get fewer units per class. gg</p>